Aerial View Shows How Close Fires Came to Chernobyl

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Updated 15 April 2020 at 4:39 am

Aerial footage from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine shows how close grass fires came to the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant on April 14.

Speaking after the fires were extinguished, Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenk said the fires were prevented from moving toward the city of Pripyat, the Chernobyl plant and a nuclear waste storage facility.

In 1986, the nuclear plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. Chernobyl and Pripyat have been abandoned ever since. Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Storyful

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